Golden Fleece Award

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. French Hill (AR-02) named the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as the latest recipient of his Golden Fleece Award for their lack of monitoring and enforcing the terms of grants awarded to EchoHealth Alliance (EcoHealth), resulting in a lack of effective oversight of their research that may have led to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Rep Hill said, “Due… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. French Hill (AR-02) named the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as the latest recipient of his Golden Fleece Award for not executing proper control or oversight, resulting in $3.7 billion in improper payments by 21 State Workforce Agencies (SWA) from the Lost Wages Assistance (LWA) program implemented by President Trump in midst of the COVID-19… Read more »

WASHINGTON, DC – Rep. French Hill (AR-02) named the Department of Education as the latest recipient of his Golden Fleece Award due to the agency’s gross miscalculations of the William D. Ford Direct Loan program, at the expense of the federal government and the American taxpayer. “Since the establishment of the federal Direct Loan program, the Department of Education has continuously… Read more »

WASHINGTON, DC – Rep. French Hill (AR-02) named the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as the latest recipient of his Golden Fleece Award for the agency’s reckless distribution of nearly expired COVID-19 at-home rapid tests to the American people. “When the covidtests.gov program was created, the goal was to provide Americans with reliable, at-home COVID-19 rapid tests for… Read more »

WASHINGTON, DC – Rep. French Hill (AR-02) named the Department of Labor (DOL) the latest recipient of his Golden Fleece Award for the agency’s lack of proper oversight regarding fraudulent unemployment insurance payments made during the COVID-19 pandemic. “While millions across the nation suffered economic hardship because of the COVID-19 pandemic, cheats siphoned off some $163 billion –… Read more »

Rep. Hill Awards Golden Fleece to Health and Human Services for Raiding COVID-19 Funding to Cover Cost of Border Crisis WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. French Hill (AR-02) named the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as the latest recipient of his Golden Fleece Award for transferring over $2 billion in dedicated funding for COVID-19 measures to cover the cost of the crisis at… Read more »

Rep. Hill Awards Golden Fleece to National Science Foundation for Lack of Oversight WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. French Hill (AR-02) named the National Science Foundation (NSF) as the latest recipient of his Golden Fleece Award for its poor lack of proper oversight for grants and delays in implementing cost saving regulations at several universities across the nation. “The NSF has $6.5… Read more »

Washington, D.C. - Rep. French Hill (AR-02) named the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) as the latest recipient of his Golden Fleece Award for its delayed release of broadband maps. "In March 2020, Arkansans were told that the FCC could 'radically improve' their broadband maps within a couple of months but here we are, eighteen months later, being told that we have another… Read more »

Little Rock, Ark. – Rep. French Hill (AR-02) named the Food and Drug Administration as the latest recipient of the Golden Fleece Award for charging distilleries $14,060 in fees for producing hand sanitizer during the COVID-19 pandemic. “America’s distilleries stepped up to produce hand sanitizer when it was in short supply at the start of the pandemic, quickly realigning… Read more »

Rep. French Hill (AR-02) named the Department of Commerce as the latest recipient of the Golden Fleece Award for not giving American businesses a meaningful opportunity to appeal burdensome tariffs. According to a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, the Department of Commerce rejected 19,000 exclusion requests due to… Read more »